So-Called "Social Conservatives" for Giuliani Smear The Gipper

(Hat tip: Catholics Against Rudy)

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The lead article, "Rudy--The Candidate for Social Conservatives," at the website of Social Conservatives for Giuliani, includes this passage:

Some of the greatest conservative leaders in America have had less than spotless personal lives, but that did not stop them from doing what is right for our country. President Reagan's divorce did not stop him from vaulting a country languishing in the failed liberal policies of the Carter administration into a new era of prosperity and safety...

To lump Ronald Reagan's personal life in the same class with Giuliani's is despicable. Yet it is exactly what I have said all along must happen as a result of the Giuliani candidacy and a Giuliani presidency. A quick review of well-known facts: Ronald Reagan's first wife, Jane Wyman, left him and ended their marriage, primarily over the fact that she didn't like his politics and his political activities. He was wounded and devastated by this, and didn't fully recover until he married his second wife Nancy Davis several years later. There was no public adultery, there was no private adultery that anyone knows of, there were no public attacks on his wife, there was no attempt to remove his wife and children from their home. There was nothing spotted about Reagan's behavior at all. Yet these "social conservatives" for Giuliani are perfectly willing to suggest an equivalence between Giuliani's catastrophic marital and family history and Reagan's blameless history, purely for the sake of removing any criticism from Giuliani.

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